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AMERICAN 



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MONTHLY 



Number Twelve April 1898 



A PETITION OF W. C. EXHIBITED TO THE 
HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT NOW AS- 
SEMBLED, FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE 
GOSPEL IN AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES, 
AND FOR THE SETTLING OF OUR PLANTA- 
TIONS THERE ; WHICH PETITION IS APPROVED 
BY SEVENTY ABLE ENGLISH DIVINES, ALSO 
BY MASTER ALEXANDER HENDERSON AND 
SOME OTHER WORTHY MINISTERS OF SCOT- 
LAND. PRINTED IN THE YEAR 1641. 



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history of America which have hitherto been inaccessible to 
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of New England ; or, The Observation and Discoveries of 
Captain John Smith (admiral of that country) in the North of 
America, in the year of our Lord 1614; with the success of 
six ships that went the next year, 161 5; and the accidents 
that befell him among the French men of war ; with the proof 
of the present benefit this country affords, whither this present 
year, 1616, eight voluntary ships are gone to make farther 
trial. London, 1616." 



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Description of the Province of South Carolina, 1732. 
Description of Georgia; London, 1741. 
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A 



PETITION 



OF W. C. 

VV, Caste M 

•I 

Exhibited to the High Court of Parliament 

Now Assembled, for the Propagating of 

THE Gospel in America and the West 

Indies, and for the Settling of 

Our Plantations there. 



Which Petition is Approved by Seventy 
Able English Divines, 

ALSO BY 

Master Alexander Henderson, and Some 

Other Worthy Ministers of 

Scotland. 



printed in the year 1641. 



No 12 APRIL i8q8 

Colonial tracts 

Published by GEORGE P HUMPHREY 

ROCHESTER N Y 



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voLi COLONIAL TRACTSnoo 



TO THE MOST HIGH AND HONORABLE COURT OF PAR- 
LIAMENT, NOW ASSEMBLED, THE HUMBLE PETITION 
OF WILLIAM CASTELL, PARSON OF COURTENHALL 
IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, FOR THE PROPAGATING 
OF THE GOSPEL IN AMERICA. 

TN all humble manner showeth, unto your approved wisdoms, 
-^ the great and general neglect of this kingdom, in not propa- 
gating the glorious Gospel in America, a main part of the world. 
Indeed, the undertaking of the work is, in the general, acknowl- 
edged pious and charitable ; but the small prosecution that hath 
hitherto been made of it, either by us or others, having as yet 
never been generally undertaken in pity to men's souls, but in 
hope to possess land of those infidels, or of gain by commerce, 
may well make this and all other Christian kingdoms confess 
they have been exceeding remiss in performing this so religious, 
so great, so necessary a work. 

May it therefore please your wisdoms to give your petitioner 
leave to propose briefly, as the nature of a petition requireth, 
the more than ordinary piety and charity of the work, the 
evident necessity and benefit of undertaking, together with the 
easiness of effecting. 

A greater expression of piety, your petitioner conceiveth, 
there cannot be than to make God known where he was never 
spoken nor thought of, to advance the scepter of Christ's king- 
dom. And now, again, to reduce those who at first were 
created after the image of God, from the manifest worship of 
devils, to acknowledge and adore the blessed Trinity in unity, 
to do this is to be happy instruments of effecting those often 
repeated promises of God, in making all nations blessed by the 
coming of Christ, and by sending his word to all lands ; it is 
to enlarge greatly the pale of the church, and to make those 
who were the most detestable synagogues of satan delightful 
temples of the Holy Ghost. 



6 

It was a high point of piety in the Queen of the South to 
come from the utmost parts of the world to hear the wisdom 
of Solomon ; and so it was in Abraham, to leave his native 
country for the better and more free service of his God. 

And certainly it will be esteemed no less in those who, 
either in their persons or purses, shall religiously endeavor to 
make millions of those silly, seduced Americans to hear, under- 
stand, and practice the mystery of godliness. 

And as is the piety, such is the charity of the work, exceed- 
ing great, to no less than the immortal souls of innumerable men, 
who still sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, continually 
assaulted and devoured by the dragon, whose greatest delight 
is to bring others with himself into the same irrecoverable gulf 
of perdition. What those blind and spiritually distressed 
Americans are, we were, and so had continued had not apos- 
tolical men afforded greater charity unto us, divisis orhe Britan- 
nis, by long journeying and not without great hazard of their 
lives, than as yet hath been shewed by us unto them. 

We are not indeed indued with such eminent extraordinary 
gifts as were the primitive Christians ; but yet if it be duly 
considered how fully and how purely God hath imparted his 
gospel unto this island, how miraculously he hath lately pro- 
tected us from Spanish invasions and popish conspiracies, and 
how, at this time, we abound in shipping and all manner of 
provision for sea, it will be found that we, of all nations, are 
most for the work and most engaged to do it in due thankful- 
ness to God. 

Nor is the arm of the Lord shortened or his wonted bounty 
so restrained, but that undertaking the voyage principally for 
God's glory, and in compassion to men's souls, we may expect 
a more than an ordinary blessing from him, whose usual custom 
is to honor those that honor him, and most abundantly even in 
this life to recompence such religious undertakings. 

The Spaniard boasteth much of what he hath already done 
in this kind, but their own authors report their unchristian 
behavior, especially their monstrous cruelties to be such, as they 
caused the infidels to detest the name of Christ. Your wisdoms 
may judge of the lion by his claw. In one of their islands 
called Hispaniola, of 200,000 men, as Benzo — in his Italian 
history — affirmeth, they had not left 150 souls. And Lipsius 



justly complaineth that wheresoever they came they cut down 
men as they did corn without any compassion. And as for 
those that survived, they bought their lives at dear rates, for 
they put them to bear their carriages from place to place ; and 
if they failed by the way, they either miserably dismembered 
or killed them outright. They lodged them like brute beasts 
under the planks of their ships, till their flesh rotted from their 
backs; and if any failed in the full performance of his daily 
task, he was sure to be whipped till his body distilled with 
gore blood, and then poured they in either molten pitch or 
scalding oil to supple them. 

A very strange and unlikely way to work infidels unto the 
faith ; neither yet could they, if they would, impart unto others 
the gospel in the truth and purity thereof, who have it not 
themselves, but very corruptly, accompanied with many idle, 
absurd, idolatrous inventions of their own, which are but as 
so many superstructures, wickedly oppressing if not utterly 
subverting the very foundations of Christianity. 

And although some of the reformed religion, English, Scotch, 
French, and Dutch, have already taken up their habitations in 
those parts, yet hath their going thither as yet been to small 
purpose for the converting of those nations, either for that they 
have placed themselves but in the skirts of America, where 
there are but few natives, as those of New England, or else for 
want of able and conscionable ministers, as in Virginia, they 
themselves are become exceeding rude, more likely to turn 
heathen than to turn others to the Christian faith. 

Besides, there is a little or no hope our plantations there 
should be of any long continuance, since here in England, for 
some years last past, they have been rather diversely hindered 
than any ways furthered, how and by whom your vv^isdoms 
either have or will shortly find out ; but this is evident, that 
the proud, superstitious Spaniard, who hateth their religion 
and feareth their neighbors, will spare them no longer than, to 
his overswelling greatness, shall seem good. And in the judg- 
ment of most judicious travelers that way, they may, if they 
will, easily enough suppress and destroy all our other planta- 
tions, as they did of late that of Saint Christopher's ; when 
they were no way provoked by us, they will now pretend they 
are, by a latter taking of Trinidado and the loss of more than 



150 of their men there. At least they will be sure to be des- 
perately assaulted, as was the isle of Providence, but the year 
last past. 

Whence, your petitioner offereth unto your honorable consid- 
erations a third argument, drawn from mere necessity, that as 
you tender the happy proceeding of those as yet but weakly 
settled plantations, the liberties, livelihood, and lives of many 
thousands of our dear-brethren and countrymen, and which is 
yet more, the prosperous progress of the gospel, you would be 
pleased to consult of such an able and speedy supply as may 
secure them against the now expected cruelty of the Spaniard. 

To which needful supply the better and sooner to induce 
your wisdoms, your petitioner desireth your yet a little further 
patience, until he hath shewed some temporal benefits that are 
thereby like to accrue unto this kingdom, together with the 
easiness of effecting. 

When a kingdom beginneth to be overburdened with a 
multitude of people, as England and Scotland now do, to have 
a convenient place where to send forth colonies is no small 
benefit. And such are the northeast and northwest parts of 
America, between the degrees of 25 and 45 of the north lati- 
tude, which at this time do even offer themselves unto us, to 
be protected by us against the known cruelty of the over-near 
approaching Spaniard. 

A very large tract of ground containing spacious, healthful, 
pleasant, and fruitful countries, not only apt but already 
provided of all things necessary for man's sustentation, corn, 
grass, and wholesome cattle in good competency ; but fish, 
fowl, fruits, and herbs in abundant variety. 

If we should look no further than the south of Virginia, 
which is our own, we shall find there all manner of provision 
for life besides merchantable commodities, silk, vines, cotton, 
tobacco, deer-skins, goat-skins, rich fur, and beavers good 
store, timber, brass, iron, pitch, tar, rosin, and almost all things 
necessary for shipping, which if they shall be employed that 
way, they who are sent away may, with God's blessing, 
within short time, in due recompence of their setting forth, 
return this kingdom store of silver and gold, pearls, and precious 
stones ; for undoubtedly, if there be not a general mistake in 
all authors who have written of these places, such treasure is 



to be had, if not there, yet in places not far remote, where as 
yet the Spaniard hath nothing to do. And in case the Spaniard 
will be troublesome to our plantations, or shall, as it is generally 
conceived, be found an enemy to this kingdom, there is no way 
more likely to secure England than by having a strong navy 
there ; hereby we may come to share, if not utterly to defeat 
him of that vast Indian treasure wherewith he setteth on fire 
so great a part of the Christian world, corrupteth many coun- 
selors of state, supporteth the papacy, and generally perplexeth 
all reformed churches. 

Nor need any scrupulous query be made, whether we may 
not assault an enemy in any place, or not esteem them such 
as shall assault us in those places, where we have as much to 
do as they. The Spaniard claimeth indeed an interest little 
less than hereditary in almost all America and the West Indies, 
but it is but by virtue of the Pope's grant, which is nothing 
worth, as was long since determined by Queen Elizabeth and 
her counsel ; so as for the Spaniard to debar us in the liberty 
of our plantations, or freedom of commerce in those spacious 
countries, were over-proudly to take upon him, and for us to 
permit it were overmuch to yield of our own right. 

Especially when we may, as now we may, so easily help 
ourselves ; for your petitioner conceiveth there is no great 
difficulty in the preparation here, or tediousness in the passage 
thither, or hazard when we come there. The preparation of 
men and shipping, in respect of the daily, happy, expected 
accord between us and the Scots, is, upon the matter, already 
made ; and as for money, it is in the power of this honorable 
house to give sufficient, without any grievence or dislike of the 
commonwealth, who undoubtedly in the general will think 
nothing grievous which shall be concluded by your wisdoms, 
expedient to such a pious and charitable work. 

And as for the passage, how can it be thought either tedious 
or dangerous, it being ordinarily but six weeks' sail, in a sea 
much more secure from pirates and much more free from ship- 
wreck and enemies' coasts, than our ten or twelve months' 
voyage into the East Indies. And as for our good success there, 
we need not fear it, the natives being now everywhere more 
than ever, out of an inveterate hatred to the Spaniard, ready 
and glad to entertain us ; our best friends, the Netherlanders, 



10 

being with eight and twenty ships gone before to assist and 
further us. And, which is much more, our going with a 
general consent in God's cause, for the promoting of the gospel 
and enlarging of His church, may assure us of a more than 
ordinary protection and direction. That hitherto we have been 
less successful in our voyage that way, we may justly impute 
it to this, that as yet they have not been undertaken with such 
a general consent and with such a full reference to God's 
glory as was requisite. 

And so, your petitioner, having delivered his apprehension 
herein more briefly than so weighty a matter might well 
require, he submits all the premises to your more full delibera- 
tion and conclusion, which, he humbly prayeth, may be with 
all convenient speed the only best way under God to make it 
the better successful. 



11 

\1 ZE whose names are here underwritten, having been upon 
'" occasion acquainted with a motion intended to be made 
by Master William Castell, parson of Courtenhall in the county 
of Northampton, to the high and honorable court of Parliament, 
now assembled, concerning the propagation of the glorious 
gospel of Christ in America. As we do well approve of the 
motion, so we do humbly desire his reasons may be duly 
considered ; and so good a work furthered their wiser judgments 
may resolve upon, to which we humbly submit the same. 



John Mosely, D. D. 

Ra. Brownricke, D. D. 

Thomas Bambrig, D. D. 

Robert Sanderson, D. D. 

Richard Alleyne, D. D. 

Daniel Featly, D. D. 

Mathias Styles, D, D. 

Edmond Stanton, D. D. 

Stephen Denison, D. D. 

Edw. Williamot, D. D. 

Jonathan Brown, D. D. 

Jasper Fisher, D. D. 

Hannibal Potter, D. D. 

Anthony Clapton, D. D. 

Thomas Drayton, D. D. 

John Grant, D. D. 



Ministers of LONDON 

George Walker, 
James Palmer, 
Edward Marbury, 
Joseph Caryll, 
Edmond Calamy, 
Adoniram Byfield, 
William Price, 
Richard iVladen, 
James Batty, 
iVlath. Griffeth, 
Ephraim Paget, 
Robert Pory, 
William Janeway, 
Nathaniel Barry. 



Ministers of several other counties : 



John White, 
William Ford, 1 
John Payns, J 
Zachery Caudry, 
Henry Paynter, 
Stephen Marshall, \ 
Samuel Joyner, i 
John Ward, 
Jer. Burroughes, 
John Rawlinson, 
Moses Capell, 1 
William Rhet, / 
Francis Charliot, 
Richard Gifford, T 
William Englesby, i 



Dorsetshire, 
Somersetshire, 

Lestershire, 
Devonshire, 

Essex, 

Suffolk, 

Northfolk, 

Darby, 

Kent, 

Buck, 

Herford. 



12 

Other worthy ministers of the diocese of Peterborough, 
where the petitioner liveth : 

Daniel Caudery, William Spencer, 

Jeremy Whittaker, Edmond James, 

John Barry, John Baynard, 

James Cranford, George Jay, 

Samuel Craddock, Francis Presse, 

David Ensme, John Guderick, 

Edmond Castell, Miles Berker, 

Samuel Moyle, Francis Atturbury, 

Daniel Rogers, Jeremy Stephens, 

Benjamin Tomkins, John Ward, 

Richard Cooke, Peter Fawtract, 

Richard Trueman, William Malkinson. 
John Guderick, 

The motion made by Master William Castell, minister of 
the gospel, for propagating of the blessed evangel of Christ, 
our Lord and Saviour, in America, we conceive in the general to 
be most pious, Christian, and charitable, and therefore worthy 
to be seriously considered of all that love the glorious name of 
Christ and are zealous of the salvation of souls, which are 
without Christ and without God in the world, wishing the 
opportunity and fit season, the instruments and means, and 
all things necessary for the prosecution of so pious a work, to 
be considered by the wisdoms of churches and civil powers, 
whom God hath called and enabled with piety, prudence, and 
peace, for matters of public concernment, and of so great 
importance ; and beseeching the Lord to bless all their consul- 
tations and proceedings for the advancing and establishing 
the kingdom of Jesus Christ. 

Alexander Henderson, 

Robert Blare, 

R. Baillie, 

M. Gillaspie, 

N. Smyth, 

M. Borthrick. 

FINIS. 



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with Useful Instructions to Future Settlers. In a series of 
letters addressed by JUDGE COOPER of COOPERS-TOWN to 
William Sampson, Barrister, of New York. Dublin : Printed 
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this new edition by James Fenimore Cooper of Albany, a 
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Rochester, N. Y. 

HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN TROOPS DURING THE 
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the lake from Erie to Long Point ; also the crossing of Niagara 
by the troops under Generals Gaines, Brown, Scott, and 
Porter. The taking of Fort Erie, the Battle of Chippewa, 
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author (then a captain), and their treatment ; together with an 
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THE LIFE OF CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLL- 
TON. 1737-1832. With his Correspondence and Public 
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George Mason," etc. Fully illustrated. Two volumes, 8vo. 
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The biography of Charles Carroll of CarrolUon, the last of the Signers, has never 
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with a detailed account of his public services, will be acceptable to all students of American 
history, and will enhance and substantiate the already high reputation of this pure and 
noble-minded statesman, the peer in character and intellect of any of the great Revolution, 
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE 



A Discourse Concerning the Designed Establishment of a 
New Colony to the South of Carolina, in the Most Delight- 
ful Country of the Universe, by Sir Robert Mountgomry, 
Baronet. London : Printed in the year 1717. 

A Brief Account of the Establishment of the Colony of 
Georgia, under General James Oglethorpe, February 
I, 1733- 

A State of the Province of Georgia, Attested upon Oath, in 
the Court of Savannah, November 10, 1740. London : 
Printed for W. Meadows, at the Angel in Cornhill, MDCCXLII. 

A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia, 
in America, from the first settlement thereof until this 
period ; containing the most authentic facts, matters, and 
transactions therein ; together with his Majesty's charter, rep- 
resentations of the people, letters, etc.; and a Dedication to 
his Excellency General Oglethorpe. — By Pat. Tailfer, M. D., 
Hugh Anderson, M. D., Da. Douglas, and others. Landholders 
in Georgia, at present in Charles-town, in South Carolina. 
Charles-town, South Carolina: Printed by P. Timothy, for 
the Authors, 1741. 

AN Account Showing the Progress of the Colony of Georgia, 
in America, from its First Establishment. Published per 
Order of the Honorable the Trustees. London : Printed in 
the year MDCCXLI. Maryland : Reprinted and sold by Jonas 
Green, at his Printing Office, in Annapolis, 1742. 

NOVA Britannia : Offering most excellent fruits by plant- 
ing in Virginia ; exciting all such as be well affected 
to further the same. London : Printed for Samuel Macham, 
and are to be sold at his shop in Paul's Church-yard, at the 
sign of the Bul-head, 1609. 



No. I, 
May. 



No. 2, 
June. 



No. 3, 
July. 



No. 4, 
August. 



No. 5, 
September. 



No. 6, 
Od\ober. 



CONTENTS 



No. 7, 
November. 



No. 8, 
December. 

No. 9, 
January. 



No. lo, 
February. 



No. II, 
March. 



No. 12, 
April. 



THE New Life of Virginia : Declaring the former success and 
present estate of that plantation, being the second part of 
Nova Britannia. Published by authority of his Majesty's 
Council of Virginia. London : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 
for William Welby, dwelling at the sign of the Swan, in Paul's 
Church-yard, 1612. 

THE Beginning, Progress, and Conclusion of Bacon's Rebel- 
lion in Virginia, in the years 1675 ^^^ 1676. 

AN Account of our Late Troubles in Virginia, written in 
1676, by Mrs. An. Cotton of Q. Creek. Published from 
the original manuscript, in the Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, of 
12 September, 1804. 

A List of Those that have been Executed for the Late Rebel- 
lion in Virginia, by Sir William Berkeley, Governor of 
the Colony. Copied from the original manuscript (Harleian 
collection, codex 6845, page 54), in the library of the British 
Museum, London, by Robert Greenhow, Esq., of Virginia. 



A 



Narrative of the Indian and Civil Wars in Virginia, in the 
years 1675 and 1676. Published from the original manu- 
script, in the first volume (second series) of the Collections of 
the Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston : Printed by 
John Eliot, No. 5 Court street, 1814. 

NEW England's Plantation : or, a short and true description 
of the commodities and discommodities of that country. 
Written by a reverend Divine now there resident. London : 
Printed by T. C. and R. C. for Michael Sparke, dwelling at 
the sign of the Blue Bible in Greene Arbor in the little Old 
Bailey, 1630. 

A Petition of W. C. Exhibited to the High Court of Parlia- 
ment, now assembled, for the Propagating of the Gospel 
in America and the West Indies, and for the settling of our 
Plantations there ; which Petition is approved by seventy able 
English Divines, also by Master Alexander Henderson and 
some other worthy Ministers of Scotland. Printed in the 
year 1641. 



INDEX 



Abercorn, Ga., iv, 8i. 

Adams, Benjamin, iv, 46. 

Alatamalia river, ii, 3, 5, 6. 

Amory, John, iv, 47. 

Anderson, Hugh, iv, 46, 84. 

Anderson, James, iv, 46. 

Andrews, Thomas, iv, 47. 

Ashley, M., i, 6. 

Augusta, Ga., iii, 3, 4, 6; iv, 86. 

Augustine, Walter, iv, 82. 

Azilia, Margravate of, i, 5, 6, 10, 16. 

Bacon's Rebellion, viii, ix, x. 

Bacon, Nathaniel, viii, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 
II, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21, 
22 ; Ix, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12 ; advances 

. against the Indians, x, 10; pro- 
claimed a rebel, x, 11, 12 ; gover- 
nor refuses him a commission, x, 
13 ; returns to town at the head 
of five hundred men and forces a 
commission, X, 13; proclaimed a 
traitor, x, 15, 21 ; blocks the gov- 
ernor up in town, x, 25, 28, 29 ; 
his death, x, 30; his epitaph, 
X, 32. 

Bacon, Colonel Nathaniel, viii, 10, 
II. 

Bailie, Thomas, iv, 46, 47, 66, 73. 

Bailow, James, iv, 46. 

Baillow, Peter, iv, 46. 

Ball, Benjamin, iv, 57. 

Bathurst, Sir Francis, iv, 82. 

Beaufort-town, ii, 9. 

Becou, Giles, iv, 47. 

Berkeley, Sir William, viii, 4, 7; 
ix, 4, 5, 6, 10; X, ir, 18, 21, 22, 
23, 28, 38. 

Bertie, James, i, 6. 

Bland, Giles, x, 21. 

Boltzius, Reverend Mr., iii, 18, 19 ; 
iv, 47. 

Bradley, William, iv, 84. 

Brent, Captain, viii, 2, 3, 6; ix, 9; 
X, 28, 29. 

Bristow, Major, x, 44. 

Britain, Charles, iv, 46. 

Brodie, John, iv, 81. 

Brooks, Francis, iv, 47. 



Brownfield, John, iv, 46. 
Bull, Colonel, ii, 10. 
Bulloch, Mr., ii, 14. 
Bunckle, George, iv, 46. 
Burnside, James, iv, 47. 
Burton, John, iv, 46. 
Bush, Edward, iv, 46. 

Calvert, William, iv, 46. 

Cardross, Lord, i, 3. 

Carolina, colony of. Motives and 
foundation of the undertaking, 
i, 4 ; copy of grant for the found- 
ing of, i, 5 ; description of the 
country, i, 7 ; of the form pro- 
posed in settling, i, 8 ; of some 
designs in view for making profit, 
i, 13 ; proposals to settlers, i, 15- 
18 ; articles of incorporation, i, 
18-21. 

Carpenter, Lord, ii, 3. 

Carter, William, iv, 46. 

Cartaret, Sir George, i, 6. 

Carver, Captain, viii, 15, 17, 18, 
19; ix, 14; X, 21, 22, 37. 

Carwells, James, iv, 46. 
. Causton, Thomas, iv, 25, 26, 27, 31, 
32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39,40. 

Chainsae, James, iv, 46. 

Charleston, i, 18; ii, 7, 8, 11, 13; 
iii, 6. 

Cheisman, Major Edward, x, 36, 37. 

Cherokees, iv, 74. 

Christie, Thomas, iv, 40, 46, 59, 
60, 84. 

Clark, John, iv, 47. 

Cochrane, Colonel, iv, 80. 

Cole, Mr., x, 30. 

Colleton, Sir John, i, 6. 

Coltbred, William, iv, 47. 

Cooksey, Mr., iv, 82. 

Corneck, James, iv, 47. 

Cowetas, chief town of the Creek 
Indians, iii, 6. 

Cross, Thomas, iv, 47. 

Dale, Sir Thomas, vii, 6. 

Darien, iii, 8 ; iv, 30, 48, 74, 75, 80. 

Davis, Richard, iv, 47. 



INDEX 



Dean, James, iv, 47. 
Delabarr, Mr., ii, q. 
DeLeon, Abraham, iv, 30. 
Desborough, John, iv, 47. 
Dormer, James, iv, 46. 
Douglass, David, iv, 46, 66, 73. 
Drew, Captain, x, 41, 50. 
Drummond, William, x, 24, 50. 
Duchee, Andrew, iv, 47. 
Dudding, John, iv, 47. 
Dunbar, Lieutenant George, iii, 
16; iv, 48. 

Ebenezer, town of, iii, 5 ; iv, 47, 75. 
Elbert, William, iv, 46, 
Emry, Peter, iv, 46. 
Euchee town, iii, 5. 
Ewen, William, iv. 47. 

Fallowfield, John, iv, 46, 59, 83. 
Farlow, Captain, x, 37, 38. 
Farrill, Hubert, x, 45. 
Farrington, Ensign, ii, 9. 
Fitzwater, Joseph, iv, 46. 
Florida, i, 7 ; iv, 73. 
Fort Argyle, iv, 83. 
Fort St. Andrews, iv, 81. 
Fort William, iii, 8, 
Foster, Elisha, iv, 46. 
Fox, Walter, iv, 46. 
Frazer, Hugh, iv, 46, 
Frederica, town of, iii, 8, 10 ; iv, 
30, 41, 48, 65, 74, 75, 80. 

Gaff, William, iv, 33. 

Gallway, James, iv, 47. 

Gantlet, Thomas, iv, 47. 

Gascoign, Captain, iv, 30. 

Gates, Sir Thomas, vii, 7. 

Gender, David, iv, 46. 

Georgia, colony of. Proceedings 
of the trustees at their first regu- 
lar meeting, 1732, ii, 3 ; extracts 
from the charter, ii, 4; some 
account of the designs of the trus- 
tees in establishing the colony, 
ii, 4 ; account of progress of first 
colony sent, ii, 8; Indian tribes 
in, iii, 3, 5-7 ; staples of the 
country, iii, 10; erected into a 
separate province, iv, 2 ; charter 
of, iv, 2 ; trustees, iv, 3 ; griev- 
ances set forth, iv, 20 ; answer 
of the trustees to the inhabitants 
of Savannah, 1738, iv, 57; reso- 
lution of thev trustees relating to 



grants and tenure of land, iv, 60 ; 
description of, iv, 75 ; trustees in- 
duced to prohibit the use of 
negroes, v, 9 ; journal of the trus- 
tees from 1733 to 1 741, V, 16-37. 

Gilbert, Robert, iv, 27, 46. 

Glen, Archibald, iv, 46. 

Gordon, Mr., iv, 26. 

Gorsand, Mr., iv, 47. 

Gouge, Colonel, x, 30. 

Grahame, John, iv, 46. 

Grahame, Patrick, iv, 46. 

Grant, Andrew, iv, 46, 66. 

Grantham, Captain, x, 47, 48. 

Green, Henry, iv, 46, 

Greenfield, Christopher, iv, 46. 

Greenfield, William, iv, 46. 

Hampstead, iii, 7 ; iv, 83. 

Hanks, Robert, iv, 86. 

Hansford, Colonel Thomas, x,35,36. 

Heathcote, Sir Gilbert, ii, 3, 

Herbert, Rev. Dr., ii, 9. 

Highgate, iii, 7 ; iv, 82. 

Holms, Samuel, iv, 46. 

Horton, Lieutenant, iii, 8 ; iv, 80. 

Houston, James, iv, 46, 83. 

Howard, Mr., x, 40. 

Hows, Robert, iv, 46. 

Indians. General Oglethorpe's con- 
ference with, ii, II ; names of the 
tribes in Georgia, ii, 11 ; country 
claimed by them, ii, 11 ; narrative 
of the Indian and Civil wars in 
Virginia, x ; cruelties of, x, 7 ; Ba- 
con meets with them, x, 11 ; in 
New England, xi, 13. 

Ingram, Esquire, x, 34, 43, 47. 

Irene, iv, 82. 

Jamestown, vii, 7 ; x, 26. 

Jekyll island, iii, 8. 

Jekyll sound, iii, 8, 10. 

Jenkins, Edward, iv, 46. 

John's island, ii, 9. 

Johnson, Governor Robert, ii, 10. 

Jones, Noble, iv, 83. 

Jones, Rev. Mr., ii, 9. 

Jones, Thomas, iii, 17; iv, 40, 59, 

60. 
Josephstown, iv, 82. 
Joubart, Peter, iv, 46. 

Kelly, John, iv, 47- 
Kennedy, David, i, 16. 



INDEX 



Lacy, Roger, iv, 86. 
Lacy, Samuel, iv, 46. 
Landry, James, iv, 46. 
Lawrence, Richard, x, 24, 50. 
Loyd, Henry, iv, 47- 
Loyer, Adam, iv, 46. 
Lynda!!, Jolin, iv, 46. 

Macpiierson, Captain James, iv, 83. 
Maniey, Henry, iv, 46. 
Marrauld, Steplien, iv, 46. 
Martyn, Benjamin, iv, 59, 65, 67, 

70. 
Mason, Coione! George, viii, 2, 3, 

6, 13, 
Mathiew, Jacob, iv, 82. 
Mclntosii, Benjamin, iv, 48. 
Mcintosli, Jolin More, iv, 48. 
Meers, William, iv, 46. 
Mellechamp, Ricliard, iv, 46. 
Mercer, Samuel, iv, 46. 
Miller, John, iv, 47. 
Mountgomry, Sir Robert, i, 4, 15, 

16, 18, 19, 20, 28. 
Moore's fort, iii, 5. 
Moore, Francis, iii, 16. 
Morelle, Pierre, iv, 46. 
Moulton, Henry, iv, 46. 
Mounfoord, Stephen, iv, 46. 
Mount Pleasant, iii, 5. 
Muer, James, iv, 46. 
Musa fort, iv, 73. 
Musgrove, John, ii, 12. 

Neal, Thomas, iv, 46. 

New Ebenezer, iv, 81. 

New England. A short and true 
description of the commodities and 
discommodities of that country, 
xi, 5-15; of the air of, with the 
temper and creatures in it, xi, 10 ; 
of the waters of, with the things 
belonging to the same, xi, 8. 

New Kent, x, 51. 

New Windsor, iii, 5 ; iv, 31. 

New Yamacra, iv, 82. 

Odingsell, Mr., iv, 28. 

Ogeechee river, iv, 67. 

Oglethorpe, General James, ii, 8, 9, 
10, II, 12, 14-16; iv, 22, 30, 32, 
37, 39, 40, 41, 47, 49, 59, 65, 66, 
70, 72, 73, -jS. 

Ormston, Thomas, iv, 46. 

Ossiba island, iv, 78. 

Oxstead, iv, 84. 



Palachocolas fort, iii, 5. 

Papot, James, iv, 46, 

Parker, Henry, iv, 37, 46, 59, 83. 

Parker, Samuel, iv, 46. 

Parker, William, iv, 46. 

Pate, Major, x, 42. 

Pennsylvania, ii, 7. 

Penrose, John, iv, 46. 

Percival, Lord, ii, 3. 

Port Royal, ii, 7, 9. 

Port Royal river, i, 3. 

Potash, how made, i, 13, 14. 

Purysburgh, iii, 5. 

Py, John, iv, 87, 

Queen of Pamunky, viii, 8, 9. 

Rae, John, iv, 46, 
Raleigh, Sir Walter, i, 27 ; vi, 7. 
Reade, Colonel, x, 35. 
Rieuwere, Simon, iv, 46. 
Rogers, Richard, iv, 47. 
Rush, George, iv, 47. 

St. Andrew's fort, iii, 8 ; iv, 30. 
St. Augustine, iii, 9, 14; iv. 65, 72, 

73, 80. 
St. John's island, iii, 9. 
St. Julian, James, ii, 14, 
St. Katherine's island, iv, 75. 
St. Simon's island, iii, 8 ; iv, 30,80. 
Salem, xi, 14. 
Sallie, John, iv, 46. 
Salter, Thomas, iv, 46. 
Saltzburghers, iii, 10 ; iv, 47, 75- 
Savannah, iii, 3, 9; iv, 23, 31, 32, 

35, 38, 47, 48, 78, 80. 
Scott, Mr., ii, 14. 
Scot's colony, settling of a, in Amer- 

ica, i, 3. 
Scot's Highlanders, the settlement 

of, at Darien, iv, 80. 
Searsbrooke, Colonel, x, 23. 
Silver Bluff, iii, 5. 
Skiddoway island, iv, 83. 
Smith, James, iv, 46. 
Smith, John, iv, 46. 
Smith, Major Lawrence, x,4i. 
Snook, David, iv, 46. 
Stamon, Lewis, iv, 46. 
Stanley, Joseph, iv, 47. 
Starflichet, iv, 46. 
Stephens, William, iv, 40, 60, 85. 
Sterling, Hugh, iv, 25. 
Sterling, William, iv, 47, 66, 73. 
Stewart, Donald, iv., 47, 



INDEX 



Tailfer, Patrick, iv, 46, 82. 
Tarrier, Stephen, iv, 46. 
Teasdale, Jolin, iv, 47. 
Tector, Peter, iv. 46. 
Thorp, Captain, x, 23. 
Thunderbolt, iv, 83. 
Tibbett, Thomas, iv, 47. 
Townsend, Edward, iv, 47. 
Trench island, ii, 9. 
Trip, Thomas, iv, 46. 
Turner, Richard, iv, 33. 
Tybee, island of, iii, 7, 10 
83. 



iv, 78, 



Vernon river, iv, 78, 83. 

Virginia, first attempt at settling an 
English plantation in, i, 27; under 
what difficulties planted, ii, 7 ; 
first discovery and actual taking 
possession of vi, 6 ; above an 
hundred transported there in 1587, 
vi, 7 ; actual possession taken in 
the name of Queen Elizabeth, 
1584, vi, 7 ; power and authority 
assigned to Walter Raleigh to 
plant forces and colonies there, 
vi, 7 ; the natural seat and dispo- 
sition of the country described, 
vi, 9 ; Sir Thomas Dale arrives 



at the colony, i6n, vii,6; Bacon's 
rebellion, viii, ix, x. 

Wading, Mr., x, 30. 
Walker, Andrew, iv, 47. 
Ward, Samuel, iv, 46. 
Wardrope, Joseph, iv, 46, 
Warner, Colonel Augustine, x, 29. 
Washington, Colonel John, ix, 3. 
Watson, Captain Joseph, iv, 27, 82. 
Watts, Jacob, iv, 46. 
Wattle, Thomas, iv, 47. 
Wesley John, iv, 32, 34, 35, 39, 82. 
West Point, x, 41, 48, 49. 
Whiggan, Mr., Indian interpreter, ii, 

II, 12. 
Wilford, Captain, x, 36. 
Williams, James, iv, 46. 
Williams, Robert, iv, 46, 57, 82. 
Williamson, William, iv, 34, 59, 84. 
Wilmington island, iv, 67, 
Woodroofe, William, iv. 46. 

Young, Isaac, iv, 46. 
Young, John, iv, 46. 
Young, Thomas, iv, 46. 

Ziegenhagen, Rev. Frederick, iii, 17. 



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